How have you embarrassed your kids?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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My kids aren’t old enought to embarrass (yet), but I’ve been gotten good. My great-aunt had me with her at K-mart when I was 9 or so. I had wandered off to look at the toys, but she found me, oh yes she did. She was wearing a cowboy hat, had taken out her dentures and was enthusiastically riding a hobby horse and calling my name.

In high school I got busted for skipping school. The next day my mom came to each and every class with me, to make sure I was there, and sat through each period to make sure I would stay. She announced loudly to each teacher why she was there in front of the class, of course. At least she did me the “favor” of wearing her “cool” clothes and talking “hip”.

You might think this kind of upbringing damaged me in some way. I think so, too. Now when we’re out in public, my mom and I are always trying to out-do each other. My kids think it’s funny(for now).

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Are we talking about skimpy Faye Valentine, or modest Aeris? Or you could always just do someone like Lynn Minmay, so your kids and their friends would have blank looks on their faces and just ignore you.

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I don’t think I’ve had much of a chance to embarrass my kids, though god knows, I wanted to.

When they were school age, I started telling them that if they embarrassed me in front of my peer group (i.e. the grocery store, the bank), then I would embarrass them right back. I knew where they went to school. I knew who their friends were. There was an unimaginable wealth of details, both true and made up, that I was prepared to share. I was willing to be a complete idiot, because after all, it wasn’t my school!

It’s amazing how well behaved they were when we went out in public.